Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-02-17
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I Governor Ames, Of Massachusetts,
has four Harvard graduates on his
staff.
Rosina Yokes is a second cousin OF
Lord Salisbury, and she is very proud
of the connection.
1t cost the United States govern
ment $3S4,637 last year to pay the
salaries and mileage of senators.
It is complained in New York that
fashionable people slide into private
entertainments without paying.
Mr.. Labouchere says that Princess
Beatrice's baby sis no more prince
than any little brat in the streets.
There is on exhibition in the office
of New York steamship company a
model of an ocean vessel that cost So
OO0
Mrs. Grover Cleveland is an old
friend of Lawrence Barrett, and goes to
see him act whenever she has chance
to do so.
There is law in Switzerland which
compels every newly-married couple to
plant trees shortly after the ceremony
of marriage
Miss Edgerton. the only woman who
has received doctors degree from
Columbia college, is passing part of
the winter in Boston.
England seems to believe that some
country may need bombarding before
long, and she is getting ready for any
thing that may happen.
One of the leading questions in New
York city now is whether people who
reside in rented houses should be con-
sidered as ''of society"
Mrs. Bradley Martin, of New York,
wears such big diamond star on her
head that she looks like travelling
dew-drop at evening parties
Mrs. Cleveland says IF you please"
to her domestics, and thanks them
when she is properly served. 1t is
sweet music to attending ears.
Somebody has discovered that Oliver
Goldsmith's grave and monument are
in sad state of neglect. His fame,
however, is very well preserved.
Queen Margaret of Italy does all her
shopping in person, with no more fuss
than any of her subjects, and goes
early in the day to avoid the crowd.
| A New York society woman has had
the check sent her for a magazine
article handsomely framed and hung
up in her boudoir. 1t called for 81. 90
| 1t is said that person can live
cheaper, and at the same time more
aristocratically, in Geneva, Switzer-
land, than in any other city in the
world.
Ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsyl-
vania, says he pardoned 125 men out
of jail, all of whom enlisted under
FaTagut Not one of them survived
the war
General Lew Wallace's ben Hur''
is soon to be published in German,
having been translated by Catholic
priest living at Lafayette, Ind, Gen
eral Wallace's home.
1t will require $4,000 feet of lumber
to manufacture boxes for the transport
tation of The records of the military
headquarters from Phoenix, Arizona
territory, to Los Angeles, Cal
Smelting-works to cost $50, 600 are to
be erected at Tacoma, Washington
territory. They viii be the only insti-
tuition Of the kind upon the Pacific
coast outside of San Francisco.
Dom Pedro, of Brazil, has introduced
Seminite professor in the Rio de
Janeiro university. and he now pro-
poses to have chairs established rang
ing over the languages, from the Cop
tic to the Benguela.
DR.. w H. Hale, an Edinburgh ply
stefan, who is travelling in this country,
has cane which he says cost $500.
The head contains over three pounds
of 18-carat gold, and is mounted with
sixty-fiye diamonds.
Col. Frederick Grant has small
aquarelle painting in a gilt frame. 1t
represents "A group of Indians and
shows evidence OF artistic skill and
training. 1T is one of series paint
cd by my father said Col. Grant to a
reporter.
Judge Greene, Of Washington terri
tory, refuses TO grant an Indian wo-
man Il divorce from her husband, at
Snobomish court, because the parties
had not properly severed their tribal
relations, and were therefore not with
in his jurisdiction.
Mr.. Edmund Horsey holds that there
should be Il clause i'll the Experiment
Station act requiring as far rs possible
important experiments to be photo
graphed, and copies 10 be deposited at
Washington, where they may be COM
pared with each other.
Pinckney Robertson, bright mulat-
to, who during reconstruction days in
South Carolina was a power in politics
there. and while lobbying at the state
capital held four different clerkships,
each one paying him So day, is now
a porter in Atlanta at 81 a week.
A new way of fastening on ladies
hats is to bore the tops Of the ears, put
in gold hoops and have the hat strings
tied through them. Thus, step by step,
we tread the pathway to perfection,
and ere the darkness of death envelops
all the world. man will have utilized
his nose in pulling on his boots.
Some merchants at Rock Island, ILL.,,
oppose the free delivery of mails in
that city on the ground that when peo-
pie visit the post-office three or four
times day The streets present a live
lier appearance and more purchasing is
done than if their letters were delivered
free.
A new French shell. filled with
melenite, is said to be a hundred times
more powerful than the shells filled
with powder. The strongest fortifica-
tions would crumble to pieces when
attacked with this destructive she'll
II is not explosive in handling, and the
shells do not explode till they come in
contact with the object aimed at.
Mr.. Labouchere. the free lance
among London gossips, makes note of
an instance of the queens thrift. The
FIVE Arab horses sent to her majesty
by the sultan of Muscatt were worth
as much as though their hoofs had
been of gold-say $1,000 What the
queen sent to the sultan cost her 3d.
500.